
Part II, Section 21
Principles of Philosophy of the Future http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/future/index.htm (1843)
Source: Testament of Youth (1933), Chapter XII 'Another Stranger'
Part II, Section 21
Principles of Philosophy of the Future http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/future/index.htm (1843)
Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 53
Source: A Soldier Reports (1976), p. 396.
Context: As any television viewer or newspaper reader could discern the end in South Vietnam, in April 1975, came with incredible suddenness, amid scenes of unmitigated misery and shame. Utter defeat, panic, and rout have produced similar demoralizing tableaux through the centuries; yet to those of us who had worked so hard and long to try to keep it from ending that way, who had been so markedly conscious of the deaths and wounds of thousands of Americans and the soldiers of other countries, who had so long stood in awe of the stamina of the South Vietnamese soldier and civilian under the mantle of hardship, it was depressingly sad that so much misery should be a part of it. So immense had been the sacrifices made through so many long years that the South Vietnamese deserved an end- if it had to come to that- with more dignity to it.
“There was no amount of double-checking that would ever prove that nothing had been missed.”
Source: Nemesis Games (2015), Chapter 36 (p. 379)
“They had all they needed. They had the madness of pain.”
The Room (1971)
Source: How the Irish Saved Civilization (1995), Ch. VII The End of the World